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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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How should we screen for cognitive impairment? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. We do that in medicine all the time. Katie: I was going to jump in.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Get the hospice referral. What’s the evidence behind it?

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